THE GALLAY CASE.
SENTENCE OF SEVEN years.
By Telegraph Press Association.—Copyright.
(Received March 1. 12.15 'X.m.) Paris. February 28. The bank clerk, M. Gallay, has been sentenced to aeven years' hard labour for embezzling the moneys of his employers, and Madame Merelli, charged as an accomplice, has "been acquitted. ,
Gallay was it clerk of the Comptoi/ National D'Escouinte de Paris, and in August last- lie- stole £100,000 from the bank, and taking motor to Havre sailed from there in his own yacht with a Madame Merelli. He was arrested l on reaching a port in Brazil, and was ■extradited. His only explanation of the crime was that he loved Madame Merelli, a lady who was living apart from her husband.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13114, 1 March 1906, Page 5
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